Work samples
About Julia
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I have always been fascinated with illustrating particular states of mind, fragmented consciousness and perception of time, dreamlike states. Much of my work is inspired by dream imagery, and by the blurring of lines between self and environment. In my paintings, memory assembles a moment in time similarly to how dreams create a patchwork mental landscape.
BIO:
I am a designer and painter from Baltimore.… more
I have always been fascinated with illustrating particular states of mind, fragmented consciousness and perception of time, dreamlike states. Much of my work is inspired by dream imagery, and by the blurring of lines between self and environment. In my paintings, memory assembles a moment in time similarly to how dreams create a patchwork mental landscape.
BIO:
I am a designer and painter from Baltimore.… more
Jump to a project:
While Magic is Real
[description and details to come]
Warrior Series
*Click for detail on all images in my portfolio - they're large canvases, often taller than me, so better to see larger! *
The constant pursuit in creating images: How to preserve one moment in life as a totem, that speaks to you across time and culture, to bring you back to that spot that in reality has instantly disappeared. A dream-like recording pulling from sometimes incongruous things to achieve that. In this series it's about a woman moving through life, honoring the moments that it takes to create a path. In personal battle, in repose, in creation, in burning down and starting again.
The constant pursuit in creating images: How to preserve one moment in life as a totem, that speaks to you across time and culture, to bring you back to that spot that in reality has instantly disappeared. A dream-like recording pulling from sometimes incongruous things to achieve that. In this series it's about a woman moving through life, honoring the moments that it takes to create a path. In personal battle, in repose, in creation, in burning down and starting again.
-
Warrior Series: Flying Dream8 x 3 feet, charcoal, ink, oil and silver-gilded canvas (3D scales) on canvas
-
Warrior Series: ArmorWarrior Series: Armor, 6 x 6 feet, charcoal, oil, and silver-gilded canvas (3D scales) on canvas
-
Warrior Series: Happy Place6 x 6 feet, charcoal, ink, oil, and silver and gold-gilded canvas (3D scales) on canvas
-
Warrior Series: Origins3 x 5 feet, charcoal, ink, oil, and canvas (scroll) on canvas
-
Warrior Series: Siren Song8 x 3 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil and canvas layer (figure) on canvas
-
Warrior Series: Fanning the Flames3 x 8 feet, charcoal, acrylic, oil and attached canvas (figure) on canvas
-
Warrior Series: Book of Dreams8 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic, oil and attached canvas (figure) on canvas
Other Recent Paintings
My recent paintings have included 3D elements and layering of canvas pieces. Figures are often created on separate canvas and attached to the background. Small scales are created and cut out individually and then applied one by one in rows to create texture and a different reflection of light from every angle.
-
Flurry (diptych)4 x 3 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Two Moments of Solitude (diptych)8 x 2 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Storytelling4 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic, oil and attached canvas (figure) on canvas
-
Conjuring Armor4 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic, and oil on canvas
-
New Vision3 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic, oil, and silver-gilded canvas and ink (3D scales) on canvas
-
Underwater Treasure3 x 2 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
Beasts
This series came out of and extended perior of travel and the balance between fascination with, and discomfort with, being out of my element. I use beasts to attempt to represent a consciousness within its own mental environment, not exactly a person, not exactly an animal, of no particular gender, age, race... simply a being.
-
Beast on the Vltava4 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Beast Under Ponte Vecchio4 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Having It All5 x 4 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Afternoon (diptych)8 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Beast5 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Hidden Beast3 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Flying Dream Over Venice5 x 4 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Moment in the Forest5 x 3 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Flying Dream Over Prague (diptych)8 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Flying Dream Over Český Krumlov
Older Works
-
Ship On Fire (diptych)4 x 4 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Flying Dream4 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Warrior6 x 12", charcoal and oil on canvas
-
Three Blackbirds (diptych)4 x 5 feet, charcoal, acrylic and oil on canvas
-
Underwater Dreamcharcoal, acrylic, oil, silver-gilded paper on canvas
-
Falling Dreamcharcoal, acrylic, oil, and ink on paper on canvas
Travel Journal
Imagery gathered from travels tends to pop up in paintings, months or years later.